Typology
Subtitle: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780811823081
Subjects: Typography; History; Art & Art Instruction; Art; United States; Type and type-founding; Art / Typography; 20th century; 19th century; Europe, Western
First sentence: "Old Face" types came into being in 1470, when Nicolas Jenson, a Frenchman in Venice, created the first roman (or Humanist) fount in the Venetian style.